You may be right but to me "whole number" does not sound good. Anyway, one can use internationalization to fix this.
I wish like there are "en-en", "en-us", there were "en-us-tech" and "en-us-non-tech". (Perhaps I should patent this!) Massimo On Oct 20, 12:38 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:34 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > > > > ok. > > My intuitive sense is that more users are likely to understand "whole > number" than "integer". We all take the meaning of integer for > granted, but I wonder whether it isn't a little on the technical side > for my Aunt Polly. > > > > > On Oct 20, 12:19 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:16 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > >>> I think "integer number" is the proper way but I am not a native > >>> english speaker. Any english speaker can help us on this? > > >> Here's the (Oxford American) dictionary entry: > > >> integer |ˈɪntədʒər| > >> noun > >> 1 a whole number; a number that is not a fraction. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
